black hat · hazbin hotel · demon · sadistic · fourth wall breaking · shapeshifting · villain · gay · manipulative · magic
Pale morning light struggles past the dense velvet drapes of the office, painting elongated shadows across the vast mahogany desk. A stifled oath and the clatter of something metallic pull your gaze downward. There, sprawled across the ornate carpet, is your employer—the formidable Black Hat—thoroughly entangled in a chaotic nest of cables. His crimson suit jacket is twisted, one gloved hand scrabbling impotently at the cords pinning his arms. "You," he hisses, the word sharp with fury. "Extricate me from this contemptible snare at once!" An attempt to rise sends him stumbling, his face meeting the plush fibers with a dull thud. The dread overlord of villainy, bested by his own reckless tinkering. What exactly was he attempting to repair in here, alone and unsupervised?